News archive for 14th May 2020

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Gavin Williamson: Unions must do their duty and help get children back into the classroom - Mail Opening from June: College leaders given flexibilities - FE Week The can has been shaken, so we must proceed with caution - FE Week Scottish universities demand SNP start paying full free tuition cost amid £650 million virus crisis - Telegraph ‘Not realistic’: Headteachers’ union says schools cannot fulfill government’s plan to reopen - Independent Coronavirus: DfE admits home-learners may suffer once some pupils return to school - Schools Week Plans to reopen schools on June 1 facing revolt by council chiefs - HuffPost Coronavirus: Borrow teachers from other schools or use TAs to address shortages, schools told - Schools Week Coronavirus UK: Student found dead in park had lockdown fears - Mail DfE publishes ‘checklist’ for the wider reopening of colleges - FE Week Sneezing and queuing: New rules for re-opened schools - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid-19: Guidance on reopening colleges issued - Times Educational Supplement | TES Coronavirus: 7 things reopening schools told they need - Times Educational Supplement | TES We are sacrificing our very youngest generation to protect the lives of the oldest - Telegraph It’s time to have a grown-up conversation about schools reopening - New Statesman Assessment: Colleges set up internal quality panels - Times Educational Supplement | TES Shortened autumn GCSEs discussed by boards - Times Educational Supplement | TES Employers aren't the experts on education: teachers are - Times Educational Supplement | TES Apprenticeship brand has not suffered, DfE insists - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teacher strike threat even sparks outrage from Labour as Blunkett blasts union barons - Express My plea to the DfE: don't forget adult education - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teachers are 'working against the interests of children' by refusing to reopen schools, David Blunkett says - Telegraph Liverpool mayor vows to 'resist' Government plans to reopen schools in June - Mail There’s no point in reporting KS1 and KS2 assessments - Times Educational Supplement | TES Preparing for the wider opening of schools from 1 June - DfE Is this the crisis higher education needs to have? - Times Higher Education | THE Safe working in education, childcare and children’s social care - DfE Ofsted: coronavirus (COVID-19) rolling update - Ofsted Critical workers who can access schools or educational settings - DfE Over 1000 jobs promoted to local job seekers at National Careers Service virtual jobs fair - Education & Skills Funding Agency Students without family support - Office for Students Unistats 2020: timetable and arrangements for the submission and publication of data - Office for Students Making post-GCSE decisions during the Covid-19 crisis: The need for action - BERA Covid19 – progress report and planning for school reopening - ISBA webinar - Independent Head Science, postgrads, training, student housing (podcast) - Wonkhe Local Government Association: Give councils power to close schools and nurseries with new Covid-19 cases - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Medical robotics challenge launched as part of UK Robotics Week - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) In this pandemic, admissions policy is being developed in real time - Wonkhe Universities must not forget about BAME students during this crisis - Wonkhe Important update for members about COVID-19 - Voice Best laid plans? Ambitions for student access and participation in the new reality - Advance HE Family literacy research and home learning - Early Education Guidance for colleges on VTQs 2020 - AoC | Association of Colleges When will schools reopen? Everything you need to know - Evening Standard Labour grandee Lord Blunkett says teachers’ unions ‘working against the interests of children’ in row over June reopening plan - PoliticsHome From AI to vaccines – how the cloud enables research - Jisc GCSEs: how data can help you to assign grades - Times Educational Supplement | TES MPs write to quiz DfE over 'lengthy' FSM voucher delays - Times Educational Supplement | TES Children as likely as adults to catch coronavirus, says ONS - Times The future of assessment - post pandemic - Montrose42 Headteacher shares her fears about reopening school - and why plans are 'impossible' - Mirror Headteachers eager to reopen schools as firm proposes ‘big top’ classrooms - Evening Standard Coronavirus: Publish school reopening science, officers urged - BBC 'I felt guilty': volunteer on signing up for Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial - Guardian Lord Blunkett blasts teaching unions for ‘working against the interests of children’ in row with teachers - The Sun Ofqual reveals three week ‘window’ for estimating grades - FE Week Coronavirus: Ofqual reveals three week ‘window’ for estimating vocational and technical grades - Schools Week Headteacher tells parents he'd rather children retake a year than die from coronavirus - Evening Standard The phrase ‘online learning’ is alluring and misleading: the site of learning is the mind - IOE London Blog Leading the maintained nursery school response to covid-19 - NAHT Labour schools shadow calls for baseline assessment to be cancelled - Nursery World Lessons for graduates entering a job market in crisis - Financial Times Ignore July full primary pupil return target, say heads - Times Educational Supplement | TES School reopening: key mental health questions answered - Times Educational Supplement | TES How FE qualifications could be assessed this year - Times Educational Supplement | TES Blunkett 'critical' of opposition to school return plan - Times Educational Supplement | TES David Blunkett lambasts teaching unions over opposition to schools reopening - HuffPost Top head passing on 'blueprint' to new school leaders - Times Educational Supplement | TES Why needlessly push teachers’ anxiety up to level 5? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Teaching unions demand Williamson axe plans – “Not safe” - Express Is the old status quo worth rushing back to? - Times Educational Supplement | TES Keeping schools closed delivers a double blow to productivity - Telegraph Teachers are 'most at risk' of catching coronavirus from other teachers than from students when schools reopen - Express I’m a teacher. Reopening schools in June feels like throwing us to the wolves - HuffPost How the pandemic is sending universities back to school - Financial Times Postgraduates: the understated powerhouse of UK higher education? - HEPI Postgraduate Education in the UK - HEPI Landmark report on the last decade of UK postgraduate education provides an indication of what is to come after Covid-19 - HEPI Coronavirus UK: Adviser sceptical on 1 June school reopening - Mail Top scientist warns of ‘low confidence’ pupils won’t spread virus with UK schools set to reopen - The Sun Teachers 'are more likely to catch coronavirus in the staff room than the classroom' says government science expert - Mail Ministers have 'no idea' if reopening schools will cause second coronavirus peak - Mirror Gender pay gap is driving more women to do postgraduate degrees, study finds - Telegraph UK postgraduate sector’s reliance on Chinese students spotlighted - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities may be at greater risk due to over-reliance on Chinese students - Mail Science ‘risks coronavirus backlash’ as it is drawn into politics - Times Higher Education | THE Are ‘European universities’ really possible? - Times Higher Education | THE Without being at school, many pupils have no hope. That's why teachers must get back in class - Mail Denmark shows schools can reopen safely, Gavin Williamson tells unions - Times White men are the least likely to study at postgraduate level - Times Long lie-ins create hardier teenagers, stress tests reveal - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: children aren’t ‘substantial’ spreaders, early research suggests - Times CollectiveED (Leeds Beckett): May 2020 update - UCET